GaitScan is a state of the art computer hardware and software system that helps your health care practitioner assess and analyze your feet.  This analysis combined with your practitioners’ experience and knowledge detects abnormal foot function which may be affecting your feet or other parts of your body.  Your health care practitioner at Total Health Systems can prescribe foot orthotics to help correct your specific foot and body imbalance.  You can help us by discussing any nagging foot, leg or back problems, and even by simply asking if your feet could be part of the problem.
The Orthotic Group’s (TOG) custom orthotics help rebalance your feet, reducing pain and discomfort by enhancing your body’s natural movements.  In close partnership with your healthcare professional, TOG designs orthotics that augment treatment and add to your general well-being no matter where your feet may take you!
How do I know if I have a problem?
●  Localized foot pain ●  Arch/heel pain ●  Hip or back pain-even neck pain
●  Leg/knee pain ●  Bunions, hammer toes
Mention the GaitScan to your physician or the front desk so they can schedule your assessment today!

THE TOTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS STORY: We are a full service health and wellness facility that not only takes care of your pain, but provides you with the tools necessary to obtain and maintain optimal health and wellness. Guaranteed!

The strength of Total Health Systems of Macomb County lies in the unique combination of healthcare disciplines we provide.  We provide traditional medical services, chiropractic, physical therapy, massage therapy, one-on-one personal training, physician supervised weight loss, nutrition, and wellness services.  It is this unique combination of healthcare services that make us stand out from the healthcare crowd in the Macomb county area.  We provide one-stop shopping for conservative, drug-free healthcare approaches.

At Total Health Systems of Clinton Township and Chesterfield, we are “a multi-disciplinary practice that provides both traditional medical and holistic therapies with a two-pronged ‘corrective’ and ‘wellness’ approach.”   By focusing on correcting joint dysfunction and nervous system coordination with our chiropractic approach, and correcting muscle imbalance with our physical therapy services, we are able to transition our patients from a passive to active care model.  By breaking down muscle using soft tissue techniques including massage, stretching, and joint mobilization, followed by a corrective exercise program, we are able to achieve our mission of long term health and wellness.

We also promote holistic health and wellness by making nutrition and supplement recommendations to improve the biochemical aspects of our patient’s health.  In this approach, we are looking at the whole person, instead of treating individual conditions.

The healthcare industry is a slow moving pendulum that is swinging toward patient centered healthcare and preventative medicine.  We treat patients with various musculoskeletal problems, as well as a myriad of disease states.  Until recently, this “sickness model” has dominated the health-care system.
In this “sickness model,” we have seen the following:
• Products and services provided reactively to people with existing disease; and
• Products and services geared mostly for use after the disease has presented or developed.
We treat those patients who actively seek out the “sickness model” of healthcare, while promoting the “wellness model” to them as a viable option if they choose it.
In the paradigm shift to the “wellness model,” we are now seeing:
• Individuals proactively involved in their own health
• Companies proactively involved in their employees’ health and wellness
• Products and services provided proactively to healthy people to make them feel better, slow aging, actively prevent disease from developing, or to detect and treat disease early

Americans tend to see themselves as healthy until they are actively sick, according to results of a new survey. The difference between their perceptions and reality may put their well-being at risk.  According to Dr. Charles Schutz, chief medical officer of Destiny Health, which sponsored the survey, “More than anything, the study shows the need for a new definition for the word ‘healthy.’ [Americans’] definition of healthy is ‘I feel fine.’ That is a dangerous notion that needs to be replaced by the understanding that a person is healthy only when he or she is living a healthy lifestyle and is regularly monitoring key risk factors, such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels. “It is a fact that a person who is being properly treated for  hypertension may very well be healthier and cause fewer health insurance cost problems for his or her employer than one who feels well and exercises regularly, but who never sees a doctor,” he said.

To that point, Schutz said the greatest employer “healthcare” cost comes in the form of lost productivity that University of Michigan professor Dr. Dee Edington and others have dubbed “presenteeism” — employees coming to work but getting less done due to chronic but not controlled diseases or health behaviors and risks. According to Edington, that cost, while often invisible, well exceeds the healthcare cost of the identifiable illness.  The survey of 1,004 adults showed that 67 percent reported being physically active and only 30 percent perceived themselves as being overweight. “The reality, as reported by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), literally reverses those numbers,” Dr. Schutz said. HHS statistics show that more than 60 percent of Americans do not get enough physical activity to yield health benefits and that more than 25 percent are not active at all. HHS statistics show that 64 percent of Americans are overweight.  Similar disparities emerge from other data collected in the Destiny Health Study: While three-quarters of the survey respondents considered themselves “healthy,” a research program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that nearly half the U.S. population (125 million) “live with at least one chronic health condition and that many live with more than one.”  88 percent of those surveyed said they believed their health could be improved by eating healthy foods. Yet 43 percent of the survey respondents acknowledged dining on fast food one or more times per week, and almost 90 percent of those said they eat processed snack foods regularly.  Dr. Schutz described the results as “disturbing, but not surprising news” that dramatizes the urgent need for health-education programs, wellness initiatives and incentives that encourage employees to adopt better health habits.

If you are looking for a healthcare facility that is interested in treating “you”, and not a disease or condition, Total Health Systems of Macomb County is the perfect fit for all your healthcare needs.

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Ulcerative colitis (UC) is one of the most common of all of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs).  All of the IBDs are a result of chronic inflammation in the digestive tract. Chrohn’s disease can affect any part of the digestive tract and UC affects only the colon and rectum.₁
 
Ulcerative Colitis causes sores (ulcers) in the lining of the large intestine (colon). This process begins with inflammation of the lining and the more inflammation there is, the worse the symptoms can be. UC can affect people of any age, but most people are diagnosed by age 30.₁

A single cause has yet to be identified for these extremely painful conditions. It has been shown that chronic inflammation within the body and lowered immune response, seem to trigger and/or exacerbate the condition.₁
Some of the main symptoms include: severe stomach pain/cramps, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding. Other symptoms that may occur are widespread joint pain, skin rashes, eye problems, weight loss, anemia and eventually liver disease. Additionally, those who have had UC for 8 years or more have a higher chance of developing colon cancer.₁

Traditional medical treatment includes diet modification recommendations and medications to reduce/control the intestinal inflammation. These medications often include prolonged use of steroids and other substances that overtime will compromise our immune and nervous systems further and allow the disease process to continue.

Chiropractic care has also been shown to be very effective with the management of this condition. Instead of simply treating the symptoms, spinal adjustments help to correct the physiological dysfunction within the system as a whole. “When we become overly stressed, our bodies store this stress physiologically and when these patterns persist, the body begins to exhibit symptoms. In terms of a digestive disorder like UC, our body is letting us know that the parasympathetic and sympathetic [nervous system] activity are seriously out of balance….An adjustment to the bones and soft connective tissue will relieve this pressure and the nervous system messages can begin to coordinate more easily with the actual digestive tract. When the body is addressed as a whole entity a true sense of balance can begin to unfold.”₂

A case study provided by Dr. Erin Elster, D.C., shows that spinal adjustments can indeed have an effect on IBDs. This case involved 60 year old female whom had been suffering from a form of inflammatory bowel disease known as Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS for 5 years. She had bouts of diarrhea and constipation and had lost over 20 pounds due to the illness and a highly restricted diet. She also had been diagnosed with acid reflux disease and had constant neck and shoulder tightness for over 10 years. Within the first two weeks of receiving chiropractic adjustments, she experienced decreased neck tightness and fewer episodes of the diarrhea and bowel pain. After one month of care, she claimed to have normal bowel function and had been able to eat more that she had been able to for 6 months. She incidentally noticed that the acid reflux had subsided as well.₃

The chiropractors at Total Health Systems of Macomb County are trained to assess the spine and nervous system to detect and reduce the effects of spinal misalignments which can cause neurological stress and dysfunction to the digestive tract, which can result in this type of IBD.

Because of the extremely complex nature of UC and other IBDs, we offer other complimentary treatments for these conditions as well. In addition to the exemplary chiropractic care provided at Total Health Systems of Macomb County, there are also medical doctors and a registered nurse who manage the Wellness Program, which not only deals with UC, but many other physiological and metabolic disorders of the body. In addition to nutritional counseling and supplementation, a main part of the treatment of digestive disorders thourgh this program involves the use of the medical food UltraInflamX from Metagenics, Inc., which is a specially designed blend of nutrients to reduce chronic inflammation.

A case study by Robert H Lerman, MD involved a 57 year old female with Crohn’s disease, Grave’s disease, osteoarthritis, and osteopenia. She underwent a treatment protocol with the medical food and diet modification for 16 weeks. At the end of the trial period, the patient stated that she had not felt this well as far back as she could remember. She went from having 3-5 loose bowel movements a day to having 1 well-formed bowel movement per day. She also reported an excellent level of energy and no joint pain. This and other similar case studies by Dr. Lerman suggests that a “protocol of combining an inflammatory-modulating medical food (UltraInflamX) and prescribed diet may be beneficial for patients with a Crohn’s disease and symptoms related to other immune-inflammatory conditions”.₄

If you or someone you know suffers from Ulcerative Colitis or any form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, please call Total Health Systems of Macomb County today to schedule an evaluation with one of our highly trained healthcare specialists. THERE IS HOPE – SO DON’T WAIT ANOTHER DAY!

REFERENCES:

1. www.webmd.com (keywords: ulcerative colitis
2. Dr. Kendra Burke: Chiropractor and Certified Doula
3. Dr. Erin Elster: Chiropractor, Boulder CO.
4. Case #1271: A Case Study Evaluating the Effects of an Inflammatory-Modulating Medical Food and a Nutritional Supplement Containing a Proprietary Blend of RIAA, Vitamin D₃, Selenium, and Zinc in a Patient with Crohn’s Disease. Robert H. Lerman. Functional Medicine Research Center, Gig Harbor, WA.